This lesson is designed to improve your rhythm and time-feel on guitar. It offers you some helpful rhythmic exercises that I have found invaluable in my own practice.
Double-Time Jazz Lines generally refer to 16th note melodies employed within an improvised solo.
Here are some jazz turnaround lines for a I VI II V chord progression. These lines are typical of the bebop jazz language and make use of scale passages, arpeggios and approach notes.
Chromatic approach notes are used in jazz to embellish otherwise diatonic melody lines. They are a major feature of the jazz language.
In this lesson I’m going to suggest an approach to arpeggio note combinations (the four note melodic cells) that I have found very helpful in my own practice.
Here are some jazz lines utilising a tritone substitution chord (over the dominant V7 chord) within a regular II V I chord progression.
This short lesson is all about learning how to subdivide specific rhythms against a single beat (in this case a quarter note) Learning how to play these rhythms is essential practice for all musicians.
This composition features John McLaughlin playing double tracked acoustic 6 & 12 string guitars, with multiple meter changes and offers a rich harmonic and rhythmic background for the melody played by both McLaughlin and violinist L.Shankar.
If you are studying jazz music, one of the most valuable exercises you can undertake in learning the language of jazz, is to transcribe another musician’s playing.
Coltrane changes (sometimes also termed the Coltrane matrix or cycle) refer to a progression of substitute chords employed by the great jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.
